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The episode discusses the impact of online narratives and Kremlin operations on media and public perception, focusing on the case of Ilya Remeslo and the Narva People's Republic.

A handful of memes and an online storm can look like nothing, right up until they start steering the news cycle. Efforts to talk up a secessionist Russian-speaking Estonian “Narva People’s Republic” look like a Kremlin disruption operation: manufacturing attention, stoking anxiety, and forcing journalists and officials into a no-win choice between silence and amplification. Rather more significant is the case of St Petersburg lawyer and Kremlin-friendly smear merchant, Ilya Remeslo, wh...

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Host: Mark Galeotti

Topics covered

• Russian politics
• media manipulation
• secessionist movements
• disinformation
• Kremlin operations

Keywords

• Kremlin
• disinformation
• Ilya Remeslo
• Narva People's Republic
• media manipulation
• Estonia
• Russian politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kremlin

Places: Estonia, St Petersburg, Narva

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